No one ever mistook Nicholas Evlampios Fotiu for Dick Button, but there are almost as many of Fotiu's skating highlights on YouTube as of the great figure skater Button. Invariably, Fotiu is punching somebody, a feat he performed repeatedly for the...

Harrison Ford is set to reprise his role as Rick Deckard in a sequel to the dystopian, neo-noir "Blade Runner," more than 31 years after the film first premiered. Ridley Scott directed the 1982 movie, which was adapted from the Philip K. Dick...

A Beverly Hills house that was a gathering spot for Hollywood greats over the decades has come on the market for $7.495 million.
Designed by noted architect Gerard R. Colcord and built in 1939, the Pennsylvania Dutch Colonial Revival-style house was...

If you want to meet Darth Vader and Chewbacca, hop on board a Disney cruise next year.
Disney Cruise Line announced Wednesday that it would host Boba Fett, Stormtroopers and other characters on board selected seven-night sailings in 2016.
It's a...

Disney and Lucasfilm have tapped Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Jones to star in the "Star Wars" standalone movie from director Gareth Edwards.
Jones was one of several actresses to have met for the role along with Rooney Mara and Tatiana...

The Force is with moviegoers.
"Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" is the most anticipated movie of 2015, according to a Fandango survey.
The nation's largest movie ticket company said Tuesday that the upcoming franchise blockbuster...

"There's been an awakening. Have you felt it?" (If not, you probably noticed its impact Friday morning on Twitter or Facebook)
That's how the first official teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens. What...

As Thomas Wolfe once wrote (and I believe I'm accurate here): You can go home again despite the fact your new sitcom on Fox just pulled a 0.7/2 rating among viewers 18 to 49, attracting 1 million fewer eyeballs than your lead-in, a "Family...

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Lukas Haas was born in West Hollywood, Calif., on this date in 1976. This birthday rose to fame as a child, starring with Harrison Ford in 1985's "Witness." He would go on to be nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of...

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has been cast in the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode VII," Walt Disney Co's Lucasfilm said on Monday.
Nyong'o, whose first film role last year in "12 Years a Slave," earned her the Academy Award for...

For two years, Mark Hamill kept a secret he learned in Orlando.
"Star Wars" mastermind George Lucas had invited Hamill and Carrie Fisher to lunch and asked them to reprise their roles of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in a planned...

CANNES, France — A comedy black enough to pass for India ink and, unlike so many grotesque comedies of modern manners, a film with just enough moral seriousness to make it stick, director David Cronenberg's “Maps to the Stars” defies such long odds it...

One lucky "Star Wars" fan will have the chance to travel to a galaxy far, far away to appear in "Episode VII," J.J. Abrams' reboot of the classic space opera franchise.
In a video from the set of "Star Wars: Episode VII"...

It looks as though the Millennium Falcon will have some company in the "Star Wars: Episode VII" hangar.
In a new video from the London set of the space-opera sequel (you can watch above), director J.J. Abrams provides a glimpse of a weathered...

Actor Shia LaBeouf, who starred in the "Transformer" movies and with Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was arraigned on Friday on charges of disorderly conduct and harassment at a...

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” ruled the box office for the second week and “Guardians of the Galaxy” was runner-up in its third week, leaving three very different new films — “Let’s Be Cops,” “The Expendables 3” and “The Giver” — fighting for the...

"THE PURPOSE of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." -- Ayn Rand
TWO PEOPLE I love a lot, the philanthropists Jeanne and Herb Siegel, tossed a grand party of literary bookish types at the Four...